The web search engine typically redesigns its logo to commemorate major holidays with a special “doodle.” The Easter Sunday “doodle” features an image of Chavez inside the Google graphic — instead of artwork honoring Easter.

“Nothing against Chavez, but what the heck?” wrote noted columnist Rod Dreher for The American Conservative. “Chavez, who was a devout Catholic, probably would have been bewildered as well.”

Dreher suggested that Google’s decision to observe something other than Easter on Easter Sunday is deliberate.

“It’s a small thing, of course, but this kind of thing, accumulated, signals an intentional de-Christianization of our culture, and the creation of an intentional hostility to Christianity that will eventually cease to be latent, or minor,” he wrote. “It cannot have been an accident that Google decided to honor a relatively obscure cultural figure instead of observing the most important Christian holiday, a day of enormous importance to an overwhelming number of people in the United States, and to an enormous number of people around the world.”